In article <5.1.0.14.2.20050210150449.0208fd50 at 127.0.0.1>,
Graham Klyne <GK at ninebynine.org> wrote:
> Hmmm... I would be inclined to separate basic calendrical calulations from
> timezones (as opposed to timezone offsets). Prior to RFC3339, work in this
> area was bogged down in the comlexities of timezones... it was by
> separating them that we were able to come to consensus on the basics
> required for timestamping.
The most obvious functions in Calendar are going to be these:
utcToCalendar :: TimeZone -> UTCTime -> CalendarTime
calendarToUTC :: TimeZone -> CalendarTime -> UTCTime
But by TimeZone I mean a fixed offset to UTC, so perhaps TimeOffset is a
better name.
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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA